Printing apparatus.



0. e. HEBERT.

PRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 29, 1915.

1,206,785. A Patented Nov. 28,1916.

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UNITED sTAr is ygENT OFFICE.

OVILA. G: HEIBEBT, OF HOL YOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

PRINTING APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OVILA G. HEBERT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relating to printing machinery especially pertains to what in the trade is termed a bench embossing machine, in which type set up for brief titles or other matter are used for the printing of cases comprised in the backs of books or for the printing of small sheets or strips of leather or other material to be stuck on the backs of the books.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved type carrier or chase to be removably fixed in the head of the printing machine, in relation to which head the bed platen is movably operable.

The invention is described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and is set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the carrier for the type holders and showing a plurality of the type holders confined therein, as in readiness for use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view on line 83, Fig. 1.

E represents the type carrier, shown inverted in both of the views. This carrier comprises a base (5 having at one end a transverse bar I) or shoulder forming member extending angularly from the face thereof, and it has a similar bar d at another portion of the length of such base. 6 represents another bar intermediate of the aforenamed bars 5 and (Z, and slidable along the length of the plate, it having end lugs f formed as one with the opposite ends thereof, which lugs project to overlapped relations with the edges of the plate a, and have ribs or projections P, which engage in grooves g in the plate.

The plate of the carrier E has at and along the back thereof a dove-tail rib it for engagement in a correspondingly shaped recess in the head of the printing machine.

2' represents a screw shaft having a thread engagement at an intermediate part thereof through the bar or shoulder cl of the carrier, and having the end thereof engaged with Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 29, 1915.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916. Serial No. 24,693.

the type holder-confining bar e in a manner whereby the screw is freely rotative but endwise non-movable relatively to the bar.

The end of the screw 2' opposite from its place of engagement with the bar 6 is formed enlarged to constitute a handle 7'. The abutment or shoulder-forming bar I) is provided With a rigid handle 7' extended oppositely from the handle 3', which latter handle is formed as the end portion of the screw. These two handles constitute a valuable equipment of the comparatively heavy metallic type carrier and the type holders therein conducing to convenience in the placing of the carrier in the head of the printing maillilzle and the displacement thereof from the It is to be noticed that the carrier is open at and between its opposite edges, especially between the one end abutment .7) and the slidable clamping bar 6 so that the type holders may not only be easily slid into their proper places from either edge of the plate E, but they may have, as at times desirable, a projection as to one or more of the holders beyond the edge of the carrier plate at either side thereof.

1. In a printing device, a type-bar carrier comprising the base, and the fixed end abutment bar, and such base having the upper surf-ace thereof clear and open to its opposite edges, a clamping bar slidable on the base having at its opposite ends a rib and groove engagement with the edge portions of the base, a screw, thread-engaged through a part of the carrier, operable on the clamping bar to exert a back and forth sliding movement thereto and having an operating handle at its outer extremity and the said carrier having a handle rigidly connected thereto, and extended oppositely from the handle of the said screw.

2. In a printing device, a type-bar carrier comprising the base, and the fixed upstanding abutment bar at one end of the base, and another fixed bar upstanding at the opposite end portion of the base, and such base having the upper surface thereof clear and open to its opposite edges, and having grooves in said edges, the clamping bar slidable on the base having lug members at its opposite ends overlapping the edges of the base and having inturned portions extending to Within the grooves in the edge portions of the base, a screw, threadengaged through the second named fixed bar of the base, operable on the clamping bar to exert aback and forth sliding movement thereto, and having an operating harndle portion.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass. in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

OVILA G. HEBERT.

Witnesses:

G. R. DmsooL-L, J. D. LONG.

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